Hi Honza, Excerpts from Honza Horak's message of 2015-02-13 00:44 +10:00: > Hi Dan, > > I missed your workshop at DevConf unfortunately, but as one of the > members of Env & Stacks Working Group I'm wondering what is the current > status of beaker instance [1], since the wiki page [2] seems to be quite > short. > > Is it available for some testing already? Is there any doc how to use it > as I'm ordinary fedora packager (I was not able to log in)?
Tim Flink and the Fedora QA team have been working on deploying Beaker in Fedora, so they are best able to answer this. Currently there is no way for regular Fedora contributors to log in, it's just username+password accounts created by Tim by hand. The plan is to use mod_auth_openid pointing as FASOpenID with some group restrictions enforced, but that needed some support on the FASOpenID side to expose Fedora group info. I guess that will be covered as part of the Ipsilon upgrade coming sometime soon. There is also an issue with the LC hostname in log URLs which we are working on. > I'm also not sure what is it's use case actually. Is it generally > providing a virtual machine for any use case or just for some special > type of work? The initial use case was to run installer tests: https://bitbucket.org/fedoraqa/fedora-beaker-tests There has also been some interest in using Beaker to make non-x86 arches available to packagers who might need them temporarily for porting purposes. That's something we would look at once Beaker is fully up and running. I expect Tim will want to discourage the use of Beaker for "just give me an x86 VM to play with" scenarios, because there are other tools for that, and Fedora Beaker's hardware pool will be fairly limited. > Btw. I'm also thinking about some fedora proposal for being able to > store some arbitrary tests in Fedora (basically some best practices how > to write tests above unit tests; written in anything, including > beakerlib). Is this something you care about or is this something > totally irrelevant for beaker instance? Yes I think Tim is very interested in the idea of package integration tests, which may include running jobs in Beaker. I'll let him elaborate further. -- Dan Callaghan <dcall...@redhat.com> Software Engineer, Hosted & Shared Services Red Hat, Inc.
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